People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
I lived with a guy who had OCD and I used to put Rice Krispies in his slippers before I went out.… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
“I think of everything and I'm pretty sure if I could use my organizational skills for something else, like wildlife survival kits… — Corey Ann Haydu Copy Share Image
“...The human mind is a complicated place...We hold on to things, images, words, ideas, histories that we don't even know we're holding… — Corey Ann Haydu Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and make a wish that I'll stop having OCD so that I can be a decent friend again.… — Corey Ann Haydu Copy Share Image
Sometimes labeling is only useful, like with OCD. Once you're labeled you can be treated. On other occasions labeling leads to tyranny,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
“People who live with OCD drag a metal sea anchor around. Obsession is a break, a source of drag, not a badge… — David Adam Copy Share Image
Isn't it possible, he wondered, for one person to love another without trying to own each other? Or is that buried so… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The level at which my OCD enters my writing process isn't that I slap the keyboard - it's more along the lines… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“You can't fight mental health bias if you label people based on a lists of symptoms and you have no medical degree… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
I could not do what I do if I were not obsessive compulsive to a certain extent. I don't act clinically OCD.… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
The wonder is that so many OCDs manage to live productive lives, just the same. They work, they eat (often not enough… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“But the most important part of her ritual was cleaning the toilet. In order to prevent the spread of bacteria and viruses,… — Andrea Kayne Kaufman Copy Share Image
“My reflection followed me mercilessly in mirrors, car doors, shop windows. I lived in a world of circus mirrors, the grotesque distortion… — Bethany Pierce Copy Share Image
I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going… — Eminem Copy Share Image
“Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress… — Charles Linden Copy Share Image
It (trying to keep the law) grants you the power to judge others and feel superior to them. You believe you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
OCD, we discovered is a lot of different things-it's not just washing your hands, it's whatever you're obsessed with. It can be… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“It's a thousand tiny impulses, building on one another. First you decide it's a good idea to check the oatmeal bin for… — jennifer traig Copy Share Image
Percy imagined what that would be like: getting an apartment in this tiny replica of Rome, protected by the legion and Terminus… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“One thing which I can't stress enough is thaft OCD is completely nonsensical and will not listen to reason. This is one… — Joe Wells Copy Share Image
I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
Notice that whenever we suffer pain, the mind is always quick to identify with the negative aspects of things and replay them… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“You can't compare men or women with mental disorders to the normal expectations of men and women in without mental orders. Your… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I try Dr. Pat's breathing exercises but they're not working because my entire mind is focused on keeping myself glued to the… — Corey Ann Haydu Copy Share Image
“I had to stop him from arresting an old lady who let her dog urinate against the fire hydrant that was in… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
“I have seen many cases like N. during the five years I've been in practice. I sometimes picture these unfortunates as men… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Perfection I've lived with the pretense of perfection for seventeen years. Give my room a cursory inspection, you'd think I have OCD.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended… — Andrea Kayne Kaufman Copy Share Image
It happens that there are a lot of people who are very talented who also happen to have a mental disorder. A… — H. A. Berlin Copy Share Image
Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
Well, we studied a lot of books and things like that. Denzel has a personal experience with it, not himself, that's his… — Antoine Fuqua Copy Share Image
The whole aesthetics of computers very much feeds into my OCD. They fill my head with obsessionalities and my actions become very… — Will Self Copy Share Image
“We are legion, an army of millions. Though most of us will go to any length to hide our compulsions, we recognize… — Jennifer Traig Copy Share Image
![“I sometimes think that I can't do the bigger thing that [Zadie Smith] do so beautifully, as in Swing Time, with so much world in it and so much rapturous paint thrown around. I don't think it would be possible to write a book on that scale with as much OCD as I have.” quote by George Saunders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/793/george-saunders-317_bigger_i-sometimes-think-that-i-can-t-do-the-bi_3125094.jpg)
